title: What is the optimal place for heart failure treatment and care: home or hospital?
abstract: This article examines the role of home versus hospital clinic-based management of heart failure to achieve the best outcomes for affected individuals and their carer/families. It also considers the role of remote management strategies. Overall, the evidence in favor of home-based strategies is quite compelling. However, persistently high levels of heart-failure-related morbidity and mortality, combined with inconsistent application of key components of care, mandate greater efforts to develop more standardized and cost-effective forms of heart failure support services.
authors.affiliation: NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence to Reduce Inequality in Heart Disease & Head, Preventative Health, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, PO Box 6492, St Kilda Rd Central, Melbourne, Victoria 8008, Australia. simon.stewart@bakeridi.edu.au
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stewart
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D019468:Disease Management; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000628:therapy*; D018575:Home Care Services, Hospital-Based / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010359:Patient Readmission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods